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26.4.1 Warning Categories 
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There are a number of built-in exceptions that represent warning
categories.  This categorization is useful to be able to filter out
groups of warnings.  The following warnings category classes are
currently defined:

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    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><tt class="exception">Warning</tt></td>
        <td class="left"  >This is the base class of all warning category
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    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><tt class="exception">UserWarning</tt></td>
        <td class="left"  >The default category for <tt class="function">warn()</tt>.</td></tr><p>

    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><tt class="exception">DeprecationWarning</tt></td>
        <td class="left"  >Base category for warnings about
deprecated features.</td></tr><p>

    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><tt class="exception">SyntaxWarning</tt></td>
        <td class="left"  >Base category for warnings about dubious
syntactic features.</td></tr><p>

    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><tt class="exception">RuntimeWarning</tt></td>
        <td class="left"  >Base category for warnings about dubious
runtime features.</td></tr><p>

    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><tt class="exception">FutureWarning</tt></td>
        <td class="left"  >Base category for warnings about constructs
that will change semantically in the future.</td></tr><p>

    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><tt class="exception">PendingDeprecationWarning</tt></td>
        <td class="left"  >Base category for warnings about
features that will be deprecated in the future (ignored by default).</td></tr><p>

    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><tt class="exception">ImportWarning</tt></td>
        <td class="left"  >Base category for warnings triggered during the
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    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><tt class="exception">UnicodeWarning</tt></td>
        <td class="left"  >Base category for warnings related to Unicode.</td></tr><p>

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While these are technically built-in exceptions, they are documented
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User code can define additional warning categories by subclassing one
of the standard warning categories.  A warning category must always be
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